Ross Noble likes me, he really really likes me
2009-03-11

I feel like I am always apologising for the lack of entries in here, but this time I have a real excuse other than "I just didn’t feel like posting". I have been very busy laid out with (and infecting my wife with) a bad case of the flu.

I have also been attending a sit-com writing class, writing a sit-com (that I will post here later) that was meant to be complete for the upcoming Northern Laughs competition this Thursday. However, it is hard to write (let alone think straight) when you have the shakes, the sweats and the runs.

Quick subject change and publicity update: The Manchizzle chick big upped my blog which has led to a number of new subscriptions. Hello, and welcome Mancunians! Eeyah, enjoy the blog, innit. Nice one. You will notice that when the hot, hot Canuckistani goodness is thrust mercilessly and without prejudice or remorse into your inbox, there is a link to the (sorta) super secret blog that allows comments! Wow.

In other news, Ross Noble, the 10th greatest stand up comedian of all time (according to Channel 4’s top 100 standups list) read my Tales of Robin Hood column on stage a couple weeks ago. I don’t know how reliable that list is considering the best stand up in my opinion is Mitch Hedberg and he finishes way down in 78th. Not only that, but bloody Victoria Wood and Harry Hill finish in the top 10 and Billy Connelly is #1! In fact, Jasper Carrott (whoever the fuck that is) finishes higher than Eddie Murphy! But I digress…

Ross Noble, in case you’ve never heard of him, is a crazy Geordie standup known for his surreal comedy and for preparing almost nothing pre-show, preferring to base his show on stuff that happens while he is on stage. He’s currently going across the country doing a number of warm up gigs for his upcoming world tour. During his stop in Nottingham, he was taking the piss out of the Tales of Robin Hood and according to the LL editor:

During the interval, someone bunged him a copy of the LeftLion with Rob's piece in there, and he proceeded to read the article out in its entirety onstage during the second half, stopping every now and then to piss himself laughing.

So that’s pretty cool.

I know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there took a photo of him on stage reading the LL issue, can you please email it on to me? robcutforth [AT] gmail [DOT] com. Thanks.

I am starting to feel better now, I’ve actually started eating solid foods again so expect some new well overdue blog entries in here on my Switzerland trip and my English canal boat experience. Hell, I might even do a gardening entry just in case it gets too exciting in here. Also look out for my next column; I had to go to Hooters Nottingham and write a column aboot that. The deputy editor has called it "fucking mint". I think that means "it’s good" in normalspeak.

Next LeftLion is out at the end of March.